A condition in which a person feels he or she is better and more important than others and pays little attention to them.
Exaggerated conviction that one is better than others, a pretense used to compensate for a real or imagined inferiority.
An individual’s inflated and unrealistic conviction that they surpass others is termed a superiority complex. In contemporary psychoanalytic thought, this complex is seen as a way to compensate for underlying subconscious sensations of insufficiency or diminished self-worth.
Excessive aggression, which can either indicate the beginning stages of mania or be an adopted coping mechanism to compensate for feelings of inferiority stemming from a lack of success, education, or physical attributes like height.